Mike Hall - MVP;1595565 Wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message
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Many thanks for the helpful advice in the replies. One small point
about
Ken Blakes comments on the D drive. Acer have said "Doing a restore
back
to factory default will erase everything completely i.e. even
viruses/trojans on your C:\ drive. Restore back to its original
state.
The D:\ drive will be left untouched as it contains your Recovery
image
file which is hidden away." which led me to suppose that data files
should
be kept on D as otherwise it would be erased.-

The recovery partition is set at a size that will hold all data
necessary
for complete recovery without ever generating a 'low disk space' error.
As
you have already been advised, backups (saves) should be on media which
can
be physically removed from the computer configuration.

An external drive is good for the purpose, as are DVD's. Flash drives
are
not so good as they can just 'pop' without any warning..

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Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

I have an Acer Aspire L3600 mini PC, a great little second PC but for
the
fact that it came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed in a "hidden"
part
of 'D'.


Almost certainly, Vista is preinstalled on C, not D. What's on D is
not Vista pre-installed but what you need to reinstall it--to reset
the computer to the condition it was in when it came from the factory.
And it's not "part" of D, it's all of it; D should be reserved for
that use, and nothing else should ever be written there, since doing
so can screw up the restoration info that's there.




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pratishtha